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...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
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And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
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If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
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